Redirect would be best, IMO. Can you not do the redirect in the
apache server or within a .htaccess?
-Alan
On Oct 19, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Rotan Hanrahan wrote:
> I am porting from a moinmoin tarball of the data directory to a
> live MediaWiki installation. I am trying to preserve the URLs
> despite the intended switch in the wiki engine. Maintaining the
> page URLs seems easy enough (except perhaps for some using non-
> ASCII characters in the name). However, I notice that moinmoin
> attachments have URLs of the form:
>
> <wikipath>/PageName?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=attachment.ext
>
>
> In this case there is no obvious way for me to preserve this URL
> when the attachment is moved to a MediaWiki server. I propose
> therefore to map all such URLs to the following MediaWiki-friendly
> form:
>
> <Wikipath>/PageName/Attachments/attachment.ext
>
>
> and include in the MediaWikiÃ­s 404 response page a message to
> explain the mapping, in case anyone is looking for the URL to the
> attachment. In theory I could automate this response so that an
> appropriate redirect is executed, but right now IÃ­m not keen to
> manipulate the MediaWiki code.
>
> Does anyone have any comment on this strategy?
>
> ---Rotan.
>